After more than two years of the story being "chronicled indefatigably" here at The BRAD BLOG, as Hasen is kind enough to point out/link to, his article summarizing the rise and fall of one of this century's most insidious assaults on American values under the guise of the ACVR GOP front-group fraud comes not a moment too soon.

Let's see if the rest of the MSM catches onto it, and if they're able to advance the story a bit to finally begin peaking under the filthy stained ACVR sheets to figure out who was really pulling the strings behind the scam...not to mention funding it.

As mentioned, perhaps more later on this, as I'm currently in the middle of a thing or two, but wanted folks to catch --- and read --- Hasen's critical exposé, as the breadth of the full story is finally told somewhere other than here(!), and before it gets too late on a Friday.

For more information on the "non-partisan" tax-exempt ACVR "Voter Fraud" scam and the snakeoil salesmen who invented it, Bush/Cheney '04 National General Counsel Mark F. "Thor" Hearne and RNC Communications Director Jim Dyke, please see BRAD BLOG's full Special Coverage of the "American Center for Voting Rights" at http://www.BradBlog.com/ACVR. Your donation to The BRAD BLOG in order to help us continue this investigation and many others, is much appreciated!

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Rick Hasen wrote a fine article.
What a journalistic run Brad, the facts and faces you paid attention to and investigated. Now the intricacies are taking shape, a living crime tapestry. Thanks for weaving it together for us. You rock.
Getting these stories understood might just make it easier to throw the bums out and get our votes counted...

The facts presented in the background research on this matter firmly support this reality:

"In fact, rank-and-file Republicans continue to approve strongly of Bush's policies --- and the more un-American the policy, the more they support it"

(Krugman, NYT (Raw Story), emphasis added). That is the result of the demise of the republican party. A demise which occurred at the apex of their recent power.

It is really simple, the republicans were infected with the obviously unAmerican neoCon virus. They quickly adopted a foreign policy of "new world order thru US military / oil domination", which began with "a new Pearl Harbor" instigated by PNAC members Rumsfeld, Cheney, Perle, Wolfowitz, and others.

The domestic policy was to support the foreign policy thru deceit of Americans and thereby grab domestic power wherever and whenever it arose. A neoCon congress cut the path thru this wilderness for them by becoming a rubber stamp for fascism.

Middle east military domination to control oil has been the primary foreign policy, while election systems control has been the primary domestic target, with civil rights demise a close second.

Somehow they were not able to stop the massive backlash of the will of the people in the '06 election, and therefore the democrats took the majority in the Senate and the House.

Since then the cover of the neoCons has been blown in several areas. We have seen the tip of the iceberg, and some of us have looked over into the rest of the iceberg (thru the telescope of mistrust of power) and it is incredibly scary.

I can't find the Rudy Giuliani Saturday Night Live videos on YouTube where he did a skit where he was crossdressing. If you put "Saturday Night Live" in YouTube, you get 9,000+ hits. If you add the word "Rudy" to it, you get ZERO! I've seen them there before, and now they're gone. If you can find them on YouTube, please post them here. Did they scrub them? In fact, I couldn't find the SNL/Rudy crossdressing video ANYWHERE on the internet.

Brad, thanks for the in depth coverage on this issue. However, please keep an eye on Progressive Policy Council, a group that TPM reported had connection to ACVR right before the 06 election. PPC was a fake front responsible for mailing flyers criticizing Bob Casey (now D-PA) for being insufficiently progressive, claiming he was similar to Rick Santorum. (I recieved 3 different versions of this mailer). They now have a website (a .org) which claims Full Site Coming Soon! Copyright is dated 2007, but there is no content, and only a link for email. Have to wonder what these guys are up to.

Cross dressing is tame. Tom Foley is tame! The neoCon infestation has no limits:

Former Republican Rep. Ted Klaudt could spend the rest of his life in prison after turning himself in to authorities Friday on felony charges that include eight counts of rape involving foster children and former legislative pages.

Five girls told authorities they were assaulted by Klaudt, court documents state, although charges filed Friday involve only two of the girls.

Four of the girls said they were accosted in Klaudt's hotel room in Pierre, where he stayed while serving in the South Dakota Legislature. Two of the girls were legislative pages when they were attacked, they told investigators.

(Argus, emphasis added). If you read the story it is an incredible micro-cosm of the Iraq war:

He's accused of performing "ovary checks" and "breast exams" under the guise that he was helping young women donate their reproductive eggs, according to court records.

(ibid). Sounds so like the "____ in chief" who tells many stories of how much better off Iraq is now that the neoCons have "liberated" them.

The problem with Hasan’s analysis, and almost every “exposé” of ACVR and the voter fraud faux scandal is that they miss one of the two main points of the scheme. One is to suppress turnout, but the other is to misdirect attention, by confusing vote fraud with election fraud.

So now even as the “voter fraud” faux scandal unravels, rather than shining on a light on the scandalous condition of election administration in this country and actual stolen elections, Hasan and the rest give the impression that elections are basically sound and that those who say otherwise (not only ACVR, but also you, me, MCM, RFK, etc…) are doing so untruthfully and for other motives. In Hasan’s mind, the election law scholars mind, and the public mind, you, me, RFK, MCM, etc … are all mixed in together with ACVR and the Bush administration as unscrupulous radical partisans.

I have linked to your writings and work many times over the years, as have others here. Please keep up the good work.

The count on prosecutions for illegal use of electronic voting machines is zero.

The reason is that truth is constantly being cast out from the Department of Justice Just Us:

Lately, a week seldom passes when we are not reminded of the conspicuous contempt that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales holds for Congress, and the damage he is doing to the Department of Justice.

This week, Gonzales was again shown to have lied to Congress; his ineptitude as Attorney General has resurfaced in litigation that is going to damage the government; and after ignoring a subpoena from the Senate, he made a belated but insufficient response following an angry letter from the Senate.

It's been clear for a while - and is becoming ever clearer - that the Attorney General ought to resign, or to be fired. Now, it seems that Congress is determined to force Gonzales from office or send him to jail, whichever they can do first.

(John Dean, emphasis added). With an imaginary issue (voter fraud) and an ignored real issue (insecure electronic voting machine systems) there is little hope for prosecutions for fraudulent use of the machines. That is, until Gonzales goes and the DOJ is cleaned up.

And, FINALLY, they are getting around to taking a look at Hans von Spakowsky. Jeff Toobin's 2004 piece in The New Yorker (Google it, "Poll Position") gave the heads up on this THREE YEARS AGO. It's only because von Spakowsky is a 2005 recess appointment and is supposed to come up for confirmation in June.

I don't know if you read the article I linked to in post #15, but it is an eye opener and has some thoughts that most americans, including congress, do not contemplate often:

Thus, Congress could --taking a page from Gonzales's playbook --- send fifteen plainclothes Capitol Hill police officers to arrest the Attorney General and take him into custody. Either the House or Senate, alone, would have the power to hold him until the end of the 110th Congress. In truth, a majority of either chamber of Congress has more power than a president, the Department of Justice, and federal courts to take summary actions against those who refuse to honor its processes.

(John Dean Link, post #15, emphasis added). Obviously Gonzales and the other Rove-bots have not studied american law, and do not realize the power the people have that they have said "fuck you" to several times.

Rick Hasen wrote a fine article.
What a journalistic run Brad, the facts and faces you paid attention to and investigated. Now the intricacies are taking shape, a living crime tapestry. Thanks for weaving it together for us. You rock.
Getting these stories understood might just make it easier to throw the bums out and get our votes counted...